Comments on: Black Friday

By: Alibaba

Alibaba — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:56 +0000

after reading all this,its good atleast we keep firing the decision makers wen they do not hear us,which means i believe democracy wud go on right track.coz its the stress that make them fear of taking a wrong path..cheerup la..keep the spirit,lets contribute our true feelings being a true citizen,so that atleast our effort in voting would not leave us with regrets..thanks la

By: puks

puks — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:16:38 +0000

citizens!!!,

Bhutan has been the latest if not last country to usher in a democracy but now it has become first country in the world to ban TV live coverage…first democracy in the world. congrats OL!!! for your insistence to put it in live.

By: sonam

sonam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:38:56 +0000

Again another minister did not show for NC’s question hour…Agriculture Minister

Poor NC… so now its the Third minister and counting

I guess the cabinet is more powerful than the parliment

By: Conciti

Conciti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:53:43 +0000

When such blatant undemocratic measures are ploughed through by the majority, isn’t there in place a check and balance besides the NC and opposition, some sort of constitutional provision, especially the legal teeth to take these people to task. As far as I know, in other countries, some legal organisation or a civil society challenges the government’s actions in court and the court then decides if anything is as per the constitution or not. Is our High Court (Why aren’t we setting up a Supreme Court yet) ready to interprete the constitution? Do we have a media organisation that can file a case against the govt for obstructing press freedom? There has to be a way to resolve these issues outside the parliament. Obviously, as much as the people are not happy with the govt., we the common people are not able get anything through to these thick-skulled, old-fashioned, half-baked and selfish NA members. The reasons they provide seems like some high school student reasoning his point of view in one of his school essays.

Can the OL enlighten us on why we don’t have a Supreme Court yet? And what can we collectively do as frustrated common citizen to get our point of view to the government. If you are collecting signatures of disapproval of the govt., count me in and count me in to help to get those. And then may be we can present these thousands of disapproval in black and white to the govt.

Hon’ble OL, we apppreciate your effort in being the opposition to all these nonsense that is going on in the parliament, despite your number. You have the full support of the majority of common people as far as I know.

By: Apolo

Apolo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:53:47 +0000

A very political act by a so called apolitical body! Hope the NC MPs have good arguments to support their action of boycotting the session.

By: Nemesis

Nemesis — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:50:44 +0000

Please read the provisions on NC in the Constitution before you accuse the government. OL, don’t misuse the constitution to suit your argument.

By: namo

namo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:31:07 +0000

While i disapprove both the actions taken by the government, i wonder whether it would be right phase as “Black Friday”. It appears as if something disaster has stuck to our nation!!!

By: kala

kala — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:10:57 +0000

PS: ….do they dare us to guess what’s in the offing for the body?

By: kala

kala — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:09:24 +0000

If the two horns on the head of democracy are in total disagreement with each other always, do they dare us to guess what’s in the offing???

By: sharu

sharu — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:21:19 +0000

It is shame on the part of DPT government, and especially the ministers for not being available for the question time.

In Australia, Kevin Rudd is taking his cabinet to the community for discussions and for questions and answers on diverse range of issues. In Bhutan, cabinet minister is not available for NC question time, forget about the common people. Surely we can learn manythings from Rudd and his team.